Policies and regulations in the Mediterranean: complementarity and coherence

Agriculture system in European and Mediterranean area are facing different and complex economic and social changes. On one hand, there is the necessity to satisfy the growing food demand, and on the other hand, to contribute to growth process sustainability and to increase the competence level of competence in environmental performance in agriculture. In addition, there are two relatively complex factors such as price volatility and the growing interest in the safety and nutritional aspects of agro-food products. In both developed and least developed countries a converging objective is promoting public goods through agricultural potential preservation. Moreover agricultural policy has the ethical commitment to ensure the world population access to food through the use of sustainable production processes and technologies and furthermore to improve quality and nutritional properties of food at a global level. Which falls on our plates is indeed thought through agricultural and food policies that are revisited in the chapter, both within Europe where the PAC is a political novel in the Mediterranean countries. Must admit that there is a rise in these areas of concern for the quality after research support to the quantities has long been almost exclusively. But at the moment is not yet able to consider the Mediterranean as a block in terms of these policies even if convergence is to be noted.